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I developed a global education lesson for a high school classroom. The lesson involves the students selecting a global issue, researching the issue, communicating with a digital pen pal through epals.com, and then presenting an idea to make the issue better based on what they learned through research and communicating with their digital pen pal. This is more of a project than a lesson. My idea is that the project would take place over the entire school year with the presentations being at…See More

"I never considered Andrew's idea, but its a great one. Having the students develop their own ideas for digital citizenship. I do have my students help develop classroom rules each year so why not let them help develop rules for technology?…"

"Does anyone have any issues with district restrictions for students using their phones in the classroom?
I notice that 70% of my students have a smart phone and I would love to create lessons that allow students to use their phones in an…"

"I don't actually know of any elementary schools that have iPads for their students. I do believe that if iPads were integrated into the elementary classrooms guidelines would need to be in place and rules would need to be enforced to prevent…"

"I believe money is the reason technology won't take over completely. How could a district afford an iPad for every student at every school from K-12? Who buys the replacement when a student loses it, has it stolen, or breaks it?
With that…"